Thanks, I'll look into it. I've been looking at some of the Whiteboard Friday's on SEOMoz and SEO by the sea have been quite useful. They're quite reputable aren't they? There seems to be a wealth of info so I'm just churning though as much as i can at the moment.

Thanks, I'll look into it. I've been looking at some of the Whiteboard Friday's on SEOMoz and SEO by the sea have been quite useful. They're quite reputable aren't they? There seems to be a wealth of info so I'm just churning though as much as i can at the moment.

Yes those sites are also good, but the best way to learn seo is hands on!

So if you have a site you can play with (not your money site or a client site etc) then your best way to learn is not to only read about seo and the changes google makes etc, but to also take what you learn to play with it. For example, say you read that google have changed how they use anchor text, go build some links on different sites using different anchor text and see what the out come is (there's more to it then that for a test, but you get the idea right?)

Another good way to learn is to play with the meta title and your on page content to see what works and what doesn't.

You don't need a lot of resources to do such tests, just the time and patience to practice what your learning. For example, playing with on site seo, you would only need a single domain, single hosting account and a simply template (on a cms or custom code depending on your skill set) because you could use different sub-domains to run different tests on your findings and see which works best for you.

The same goes for testing off site seo, create a blog or two about something you love and see where you can get it to rank using different link building tactics etc. For example, if you love racing cars, build a blog about F1, talk about it on other F1 sites, network with other site owners about cars and so on.

Although it is important to keep up with what's going on in the seo world, all that will help you to learn more then just reading about it!